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New @ the Library: Literature by Black Writers
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This page features topical lists of items from our collection: print books, ebooks, and DVDs. Ebooks are accessible to all Central Penn students, faculty, and staff--any time, anywhere you have an internet connection. If you have questions/problems accessing the ebooks, please contact the Library.
Books and Ebooks - Literature by Black Writers
Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou by Call Number: 818.5409 ANG rainISBN: 9780812996456Publication Date: 2014
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou by Call Number: 811.5 ANGISBN: 9780679428954Publication Date: 1994
If Beale Street Could Talk: A Novel by Call Number: 813.54 BAL IfISBN: 9780307275936Publication Date: 2006 [1974]
Go Tell It on the Mountain by Call Number: 813.54 BALISBN: 9780679601548Publication Date: 1995 [1953]
I Am Not Your Negro by Call Number: 323.1196 BALDISBN: 9780525434696Publication Date: 2017"To compose his documentary film 'I Am Not Your Negro,' filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Weaving these texts together, Peck imagines the book that Baldwin never wrote. In his final years, Baldwin had envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project have never been published before. Peck's film uses them to jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwin's private words with his public statements in an examination of the tragic history of race in America."--Publisher's summary
Seed to Harvest (Patternist Series) by Call Number: 813.54 BUTISBN: 9780446698900Publication Date: 2007Includes 4 novels: Wild Seed [1980] -- Mind of My Mind [1977] -- Clay's Ark [1984] -- Patternmaster [1976]
Parable of the Sower by Call Number: 813.54 BUT paraISBN: 9780446675505Publication Date: 2000 [1993]
Kindred: a Graphic Novel Adaptation by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781419709470Publication Date: 2017
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Call Number: 973.932 COAISBN: 9780399590566Publication Date: 2017
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Call Number: 973.8 DOUISBN: 9780486284996Publication Date: 1995 [1845]
My Bondage and My Freedom by Call Number: 973.809 DOUISBN: 9780140439182Publication Date: 2003 [1855]
In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty's Champion by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780801447907Publication Date: 2012
The Souls of Black Folk by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781975500634Publication Date: 2018 [1903]
The Sociological Souls of Black Folk: Essays by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780739150733Publication Date: 2011
W. E. B. du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9781616897062Publication Date: 2018"The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois."
Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Call Number: 929.2 HALISBN: 9780440174646Publication Date: 1980
A Raisin in the Sun / The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Call Number: 812.54 HANSISBN: 9780679755319Publication Date: 1995 [1959 / 1965]"A Raisin in the Sun" was the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway (as well as the first with a Black director).
To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words by Call Number: 812.54 NEMISBN: 9780679764151Publication Date: 1996
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes by Call Number: 818.5209 HUGISBN: 9780375413797Publication Date: 2015
Jonah's Gourd Vine / Mules and Men / Their Eyes Were Watching God by Call Number: 813.5 HURISBN: 9780965109062Publication Date: 1990 [1935 / 1934 / 1937]
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Call Number: 813.5 HURISBN: 9780060838676Publication Date: 2013 [1937]
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing...And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader by Call Number: 813.5 HURISBN: 9780912670669Publication Date: 1993
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" by Call Number: 813 HURISBN: 9780062748201Publication Date: 2018
A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel by Call Number: 813.6 JAMESISBN: 9781594633942Publication Date: 2015
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780807000731Publication Date: 2010 [1958]Also available in print: 323.119 KING Stride
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Call Number: Ebook CentralISBN: 9780807000762Publication Date: 2010 [1967]Also available in print: 323.119 KING
Your Silence Will Not Protect You [Poetry, Speeches, Essays] by Call Number: 818.5408 LORISBN: 9780995716223Publication Date: 2017
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother by Call Number: 921 McBISBN: 9781573220224Publication Date: 1996
What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction by Call Number: 818.542 MORISBN: 9781604730173Publication Date: 2008
The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow by Call Number: 813.54 MOSISBN: 9780465018529Publication Date: 2009
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem by Call Number: 811.54 SHAISBN: 9781439186817Publication Date: 2010 [1976]
The Color Purple by Call Number: 813.54 WALISBN: 9780671668785Publication Date: 1988 [1982]This novel won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1983.
The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way by Call Number: 814.54 WALISBN: 9781595589866Publication Date: 2014
The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness into Flowers (New Poems) by Call Number: 811.54 WALKISBN: 9781595588760Publication Date: 2013
The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Call Number: 813.54 WHITISBN: 9780385542364Publication Date: 2016This novel won both the National Book Award (2016) and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2017).
Uncle Tom's Children by Call Number: 813.524 WRIISBN: 9780060587147Publication Date: 2003 [1938]Contents: The Ethics of Living Jim Crow -- Big Boy Leaves Home -- Down by the Riverside -- Long Black Song -- Fire and Cloud -- Bright and Morning Star
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Call Number: 320.544 X/HALEYISBN: 0345350685Publication Date: 1987 [1965]
By Any Means Necessary [11 Speeches and Interviews] by Call Number: 305.896 X MISBN: 9780873487542Publication Date: 1993
Books and Ebooks - Anthologies
The 100 Best African American Poems: (*But I Cheated) by Call Number: 811.008 GIOISBN: 9781402221118Publication Date: 2010
African-American Classics: Graphic Classics, Vol. 22 by Call Number: 813.008 POMISBN: 9780982563045Publication Date: 2012"Great stories and poems from America's earliest Black writers, illustrated by contemporary African-American artists"
African American Literature: An Anthology by Call Number: 810.8089 WORISBN: 9780844259246Publication Date: 1997
Best African American Fiction 2010 by Call Number: 813.542 EARISBN: 9780553806908Publication Date: 2009
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers: The Classic Anthology from 1899 to 1967 by Call Number: 813.018 HUGISBN: 9780316380317Publication Date: 1969
Ebony Rising: Short Fiction of the Greater Harlem Renaissance Era by Call Number: 813.0108 GABISBN: 9780253216755Publication Date: 2004
Hokum: An Anthology of African-American Humor by Call Number: 817.008 BEAISBN: 9781582344348Publication Date: 2006
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature by Call Number: REF 810.8089 NOR v. 1 - 2ISBN: 9780393911558Publication Date: 2014
These Truly Are the Brave: An Anthology of African American Writings on War and Citizenship by Call Number: 810.8089 JIMISBN: 9780813060224Publication Date: 2015
DVDs - Adaptations of Black Writers' Works
Beloved / Their Eyes Were Watching God by
Adapted from the novels by Toni Morrison (Beloved) and Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God)
Call Number: DVD 791.43 Bel/TheirISBN: 0786936758351Publication Date: 2008 [1998 / 2005]
The Color Purple by
Adapted from the novel by Alice Walker.
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 COLISBN: 0085391163107Publication Date: 2011 [1985]
For Colored Girls by
Adapted from the choreopoem by Ntozake Shange
Call Number: DVD 811.54 FORISBN: 0031398131212Publication Date: 2011
The Hate U Give by
Adapted from the novel by Angie Thomas
Call Number: DVD 791.437 HATE UISBN: 0024543581062Publication Date: 2019
I Am Not Your Negro (DVD) by
"I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO is an examination of racism in America through the lens of James Baldwin's unfinished book, REMEMBER THIS HOUSE. Intended as an account of the lives of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr., each of whom James Baldwin personally knew, only a 30-page manuscript of the book was ever completed. Combining Baldwin's manuscript with footage of depictions of African-Americans throughout American history, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO uses Baldwin's words to illuminate the pervasiveness of American racism and the efforts to curtail it, from the civil rights movement to #BlackLivesMatter. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO explores the continued peril America faces from institutionalized racism."
Call Number: DVD 323.1196 I AMISBN: 0876964011891Publication Date: 2016
If Beale Street Could Talk by
Adapted from the novel by James Baldwin
Call Number: DVD 791.4372 If BealeISBN: 0024543566588Publication Date: 2018
Precious by
Adapted from the novel "Push" by Sapphire
Call Number: DVD 791.43 PreciousISBN: 0031398119777Publication Date: 2010
A Raisin in the Sun by
Adapted from the play by Lorraine Hansberry
Call Number: DVD 791.43 RaisinISBN: 0715515220712Publication Date: 1999 [1961]
The Women of Brewster Place by
Adapted from the novel by Gloria Naylor
Call Number: DVD 791.43 BrewsterISBN: 0031398272649Publication Date: 2001 [1989]
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